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Seraphic Steed

Creature — Unicorn Mount

First strike, lifelink
Whenever this creature attacks while saddled, create a 3/3 white Angel creature token with flying.
Saddle 4 (Tap any number of other creatures you control with total power 4 or more: This Mount becomes saddled until end of turn. Saddle only as a sorcery.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{G}{W}
Color identity
GW
Rarity
rare
Set
Outlaws of Thunder Junction Promos
Price
$0.40
EDHREC rank
#11414
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Seraphic Steed card art
Seraphic Steed lands as a lifelink, flying Nightmare that scales its power and toughness to your life total — a threat that grows alongside the same resource you're already pumping in Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn builds. The cost is five mana for a creature with no immediate board impact, but Breath of Fury lines and life-doubling loops make that window short.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn

Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn

26.2% of decks · synergy 0.23

Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn distributes +1/+1 counters whenever you gain life at end of turn, and Seraphic Steed's lifelink means every attack triggers that engine while the Steed itself grows into a progressively larger flying threat — the synergy is self-reinforcing.

02
Emiel the Blessed

Emiel the Blessed

19.6% of decks · synergy 0.17

Emiel the Blessed can blink Seraphic Steed at instant speed, and since the Steed's power and toughness are set by your current life total each time it enters, repeated flickers with a high life total translate directly into a bigger clock on the board.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Seraphic Steed is legal across every major constructed format but sees essentially no play outside Commander — a five-mana 1/1 that grows with your life total is far too slow for Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer, where life totals rarely climb and games end before the scaling matters. In Commander, it slots cleanly into any white lifegain deck that wants a finisher doubling as a lifelink engine, and the Breath of Fury combo — attaching it to the Steed after a big combat — can close games out of nowhere. Oathbreaker is theoretically viable in the same shell, but the compressed format makes the five-mana ask harder to justify without dedicated life-doubling support.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

1 decks
Breath of FuryThe Fire CrystalSeraphic Steed

Breath of FuryThe Fire CrystalSeraphic Steed

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite combat phases; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite combat damage

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Price Context

Current price

$0.40 bulk tier

At $0.40, Seraphic Steed sits firmly in bulk territory, which makes it an easy inclusion to test without financial commitment. Bulk rares with niche combo applications rarely climb unless they break into a top-tier deck, so expect this price to stay flat.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.